Thursday, 30th August 2018 – Chernihiv, Ukraine I have to say I would have been massively disappointed to go all the way to the north of Ukraine and then not see anything other than the road from the airport, and the resort hotel. On the way to our destination on the Tuesday, as we hit…
Month: August 2018
Travel 2018 – Hotel Shiskinn, Snovjanka, Ukraine
Tuesday, 28th August/Friday, 31st August 2018 – Hotel Shiskinn, Snovjanka, Ukraine Having spent four days at the hotel, I’m more than a little amused by some of its claims to “Western” service levels and such like, so I’ll try and be fair because if you do find yourself in this part of Ukraine, I suspect…
Travel 2018 – Kyiv to Chernihiv, Ukraine
Tuesday, 28th August/Friday, 31st August 2018 – Kyiv, Chernihiv, Ukraine For work I found myself this week in a country I’ve never been to before (though there is family history, and not happy family history with the country). I wasn’t going to let that trouble me mind, or at least I didn’t want to let…
Travel 2018 – Lunchtime Tourism, Day 3, Pedways/Highwalks, London
Thursday, 23rd August 2018 – Pedways and Highwalks, EC1 & EC2, London Another sunny lunchtime, another opportunity to circulate round the City of London getting fresh air (well at least once I got away from the main roads), some exercise and a look at some more of the history, both ancient and more recent, of…
Food 2018 – The Butcher’s Arms, Greens Norton
Saturday, 18th August 2018 – The Butcher’s Arms, Greens Norton Greens Norton is probably the nearest village to where we live, and the local pub seems to have gone through some interesting times of late, changing hands more than once, before finally being bought by a consortium of villagers, who are now running it as…
Travel 2018 – Lunchtime Tourism, Day 2, The London Mithraeum, Bloomberg Arcade, London
Thursday, 16th August 2018 – The London Mithraeum, Bloomberg Arcade, London I recently came to the conclusion that my lunch breaks on the days I don’t work from home could be usefully dedicated to doing some tourism in London, especially given how close the office is to a number of interesting sights and sites. And…
Food 2018 – The Crown Inn, Weston
Saturday, August 11th 2018 – The Crown Inn, Weston On a cold, damp Saturday evening (and wasn’t that a shock after the summer it’s been so far) we found our way to the Crown Inn in the tiny, tiny village of Weston, just north of Silverstone. Weston is not exactly famous, with the extent of…
Travel/Food 2018 – Lunchtime Tourism, Day 1, Old Spitalfields Market, London
Tuesday 8th August 2018 – Old Spitalfields Market, London It’s all very well working somewhere for a couple of years but eventually you get a bit bored with the same old streets every day. With that in mind, I’ve resolved to do some “lunchtime tourism” to see what I can see in the space of…
Food 2018 – The Red House, Marsh Benham
Sunday, August 5th 2018 – The Red House, Marsh Benham Back in the late 1980s, towards the end of my first decade as a wage slave, I worked for a company that moved its offices from Bromley, in south London, to Aldermaston, in the middle of nowhere, and thus ended up buying a house in…
Travel 2018 – Stonehenge, Amesbury
Sunday, August 5th 2018 – Stonehenge, Amesbury, Wiltshire For many, many years we’ve driven past Stonehenge on the A303, usually getting to somewhere to stay for Thruxton, but we’ve never stopped off. Even as a child on motoring holidays to Cornwall, we’d never stopped. So as we were less than an hour away in our…
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